Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1937 — Page 1

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■destroys Haifa mill ■1 WILLIAMS ! "" Ul ss '"‘"' |||K c d B> l ire Tiiesday Night . 11'111.1'!" K' ■' ,!i hik , u: . 1 M,ii IRKv MK i - Ti.-n.ht possibl. that ■■ Tib llllT'T purl Ilf lll'' WK i '"■ 'I--ll''i ; th" Hl" HHb a s!i 1 •■'' ■ i "" isi “ u : ' ,i; - Al- pl I -I. 111.1 (l wm-<l by Sherman II by Ernest Schafer. Mr. Krtitatril Uns morning that tlm an.l "ipnpment was E”(Jvhvil by insurance. Jin fte mill at the time of the '■ rt . wt ■ approximately 20 tons of EV U >,|. h smoldered for hours Ker th" tire had destroyed the Kin Kit of the building. Ji low wind prevented the fire Km spreading to nearby build-j Kr< |T||. Williams elevator is Katel only a short distance from KZ: Kur.ll.':’ said this morning that Kall had just been "timed up." Kny repairs made to the old' Kußent and a new motor and Kier Larhiiiery just installed- It KilAti'nl Whether any of the maHBfr can be used again. destroyed power lines ■nd Mok" down the telephone comKinfcition to the village from DeKttr. ■ It MBs impossible to control the Kaze after it had started and withMLfl| hmir only smoldering ruins B'B- — — |Co®k Funeral At Fort | Wayne Friday Morning ■ M«ral services will be held Fri■ayKrning at 8:30 o’clock at the i funeral home in Fort | Kara for Frank C. Cook, who died ■jud&nly Tuesday morning at his this city from a heart atwill also be held at • SWck at the St. Peter's CathoHhn h and burial will bo made ■ttßFort Wayne cemetery. ■Kg- ■ —o n cross is ■ OVER 51,200 Cross Roll Call Mem|Krship Total Is Now Over $1,200 in the annual Red Cross drive of the Adams county today moved over the $1,200' according to a report made Annie Winnes, secretary of reported that a total had been collected to figures to come in was an sum at Berne. The town and the economics clubs collected and turned in a of $215.23. The first report !■ there was $208.32. total from Decatur and the townships is $986.38. [ ! Wf° rt llas not been available as Geneva, Miss Winnes statof the chapter are en“Miastic over the roll call this stating that it exceeds by I i^W lat of last year and has been ‘Wargest enrollment in tne past years. Kcd e ryb o dy and uses r r ' s t mqs § eq l s - GkOC£l\ I I .I*l I i IjCTHw-w! j, i OShoppinq Days Left ii

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Makes U. S. Protest i W’ ‘1 IJI 22 cl id f Clarence E. Gauss V. S. Consul General Clarence E. Gauss at Shanghai protests j vigorously the seizure by Japanese naval officers of an Americanowned steam launch at Shanghai and the hurling of its American flag into the Whangpoo river. CONTINUEWAR~ AGAINST FORD LAW To Extend Strike; Charge Company With Discrimination Pittsburgh. Dec. 1. —KU.R> — The United Automobile Workers union j will carry its strike against Ford to Kansas City and Long Beach. Cal., next week, Richard T. Frankensteen. vice president of the UAW, said today. With the union in a struggle to unionize automobile plants of Henry Ford. Frankensteen revealled at Washington yesterday that I union members were instructed to walk out on a moment’s notice in Ford plants at Kansas City, Ma., and Long Beach. Today as he came here to adI dress the convention of the United i Retail Employes of America, another committee for industrial organization union, he said the strikes lin Ford plants would spread next week. The union plans no sit-downs in Ford plants, he said, because “there are too many gunmen inside and we don’t want to give them a chance at us." But the auto union doesn't intend I to abandon the sit-down as a weaplon in industrial disputes. “We've never tried to justify the I sit-down as legal,” he explained, i “but it is an act of poetic justice. “As long as Ford keeps using the courts for his own ends, we have to do something to counteract that," Frankensteen said in referring to the Ford strikes. Claiming that the union strike against the St. Louis plant is almost 100 per cent effective," Frankensteen declared: “they’ve only moved six cars off the assembly I line in the last six days.” Issues Complaint St. Louis, Dec. I.—<U.R>—The re-| gional office of the national labor | I relations board today issued a comI plaint against the Ford Motor com-1 |pany charging the company had discriminated against union work(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — - OBSERVE ADVENT SEASON Zion Reformed Church Plans Special Services In December The advent season will be observed with appropriate services and sermons at the Zion Reformed church, according to announcement made by Rev'Charles M. i Prugh, pastor of the church. The I general theme to be developed on, I successive Sundays in December j ! will be: “The Coming of the Loid . There will be special musical renditions by the two choirs of the church at the various services to I bt ThZ"followlng are the topics of ,he sermons to be delivered at 10:15 o’clock on the Sunday morn- < Ings indicated: Dec s—“ His Coming In Humility” (First Advent)—Phil. 2:8. Dec. 12—" His Coming In Human Experience’.’—Rev- 3:20Dec . i9-"His Coming in the Sacrament”-(Holy Communion)St. John 6:51. Dec. 26-" His Coming in Tri umph” (Second Advent)-Rev. 19. 11-13.

FIGHT ON WAGE I AND HOURS BILL NEAR TO CRISIS Supporters Os Measure Threaten Foray Against Farm Bill Washington. Dec. 1 (U.R) The administration drive for en-1 actment of wages-honrs legislation at the special session of congress; J neared a crisis today us legislative 1 skirmishing on other points of ' President Roosevelt's program ex!tended. President William Green of the • American federation of labor call-' ed his executive council to meet ' Friday to consider the wages-hours situation. Unless 218 house members sign a petition by this weekend to bring the Wages-hours bill to the floor for action, consideration at the special session will be impossible. Wages-hours supporters planned | a foray gainst the farm bill unless [southern representatives drop opposition to the labor measure. Other developments: Presidential housing recommendations were studied by house and; senate committees. Sen. Carter' II Glass. D.. Va., criticized the pro- | posal as extending government competition with business. Sen. Elmer Thomas. D., Okla., injected an appeal for his plan to stabilize the dollar's value in terms iof commodities into discussion of , the farm bill Congressional revolt against the . I president's budget-balancing proposal for sharp cuts in highway grants to the states cast doubt on administration efforts to reduce “xpenditures. Works progress figures showed a rise in relief , l rolls over the 1,500,000 mark. Balk Economy Drive , Congress balked at the first ap-, ■ plication of treasury economy nlans which embrace an over-all 1 $700,000,000 reduction in federal j , expenditures. The first part of this program was proposed by President Roose(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) . [ o VOGLEWEDE AT STATE MEETING) Local Prosecuting Attorney Attending State Conference Indianapolis. Dec. 1 — (U.R) — A state conference of Indiana I prosecuting attorneys, called by | Attorney General Omer Stokes I Jackson, opened herb Jhis noon. The officials were to consider a | : proposal by Marion county prose- j cutor Herbert M. Spencer to form | ‘ a clearing house for briefs, rulings ' and general information of state-1 wide interest to prosecuting attorneys. Spencer said such a clearing house would simplify the work of ; prosecuting attorneys and would 1 I give them the benefit of other) states attorneys’ experiences. Donald F. Stiver, state superin-: ! tendent of safety, will address the conference at a banquet this eve-) 1 ning. | Featuring tomorrow's session; will be a discussion by High Clegg, | ; assistant to J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal bureau of investigation. Also appearing on tomorrow's i program will be Gov. M. Clifford i Townsend and A. J. Stevenson, first assistant attorney general. Stevenson, former judge of the ; Hendricks circuit court, will pre- ' side at an open forum on crime. Virtually all of the state’s 80 prosecuting attorneys are expected I to be here for the conference. Arthur E. Voglewede, Adams ' county prosecuting attorney, left this morning to attend the conference. o Floyd Schindler Slightly Injured — Floyd Schindler, of Berne, suffered a shoulder injury and cuts on his face yesterday when the car he was driving collided in Fort Wayne with an auto driven by Charles Schuler, of that city. Schindler ; and a passenger in the Schuler auto, Carl Zion, were both taken to the Lutheran hospital for treatment. o Decatur Woman Is Taken To Hospital Mildred Hesher, of this city, was taken to Richmond today by Sheriff Dallas Brown, where she was admitted to the Easthaven hospital.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 1, 1937.

Ralph Gentis Leaves Thursday For Bermuda Ralph Gentis, of this city, salesman for the Schafer who'esale comI pany, will leave Tuesday on a 10day tr’iito Bermuda. Mr. Gentis, with 15 other salesman in the nation, wan awarded the trip by a pulnt brush roinpany, , tor the highest number of sales of the product. He will sail from New York on a Bermuda liner after a sightseeing tour of that city. HOMER ARNOLD IS RE-ELECTED Kirkland Township Farmer Again Heads Conservation Committee —»_ Horner W. Arnold, of Kirkland township, this morning was re-elect-ed president of the Adams county soil conservation committee, at a meeting of the directors held in County Agent L. E. Archbold’s office. The directors, who are also the township chairmen, named the following officers for 1938: president, Homer W. Arnold, Kirkland township; vice-tpresident, Winfred L. Gerke, Root townshp; third memI ber, Harve S. Ineichen, Wabash township; first alternate. Henry I Rumple, Jefferson township; and secopd alternate, Frank, R. Braun, Washington township. All these men are directors. Annette C. Lengerich was reelected secretary-treasurer. Other members of the board of directors are: Aubust H. Gallmeyer, Preble township; Adolph Schamerloh. Union township; Groce W. Tope. St. Mary’s township; Henry Meyer, French township; C W. R. Schwartz, Monroe township; Leland A. Ripley, Blue Creek township, and Dan A. Studler, Hartford town- ) ship. Program Explained latter this morning, a meeting of all the township officers was he'd in the office of the Central Sugar company, at which time the new program was explained in part by A. N. Nichter, field representative ■of the conservation department. Those who attended the meeting i stated that the new program appeared to be more adaptable te Adams county farm practices and probably would be easier followed than the 1937 plan. For this reason, they lexipected more payments to be made in the program. The same ! general plan is to be followed, in which premiums will be paid for ) replacement of soil depleting crops ) by soil conserving crops. This afternoon the • men went into the country to learn exactly how the farms are to bewneasured. The new program calls for the reporting of the size slope, productivity and other details of each field, preparatory to the establishment | | of limits and goals. Members of the 12 township committees during the month of December will visit each farm in the county to exiplain the program in detail to the Individual farmers and | to col'ect the information to be used by the state in the establish-1 ment of the goals. T Next month the amounts of payments and final details of the 1938 ) program will be expained to farm-1 ers, either at group meetings dr individaul visits by members of the ) committees. Knights Os Pythias » Meet Thursday Night Second rank work will be conferred at the Knights of Pythias home Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to attend.

Good Fellows Club Launches Drive For Christmas Funds I

Be A GOOD FELLOW! The Good Fellows club, which for ' many years has brought holiday cheer and happiness into the homes of the less fortunate of Decatur, officially launched its drive for funds today. The Good Fellows club has been sponsored in Decatur for more than 20 years by the Delta Theta Tau sorority, whose members put in weeks of untiring effort to make Christmas a little happier for the needy of the city. In launching the Good Fellows club, the sorority has started the fund with a contribution of SSO. Various civic and social organizations i of the city have always contributed generously to the fund to spread holiday cheer in Decatur. (Boxes for contributions to the fund have been placed in four different places in the city. These boxes are located at the Dally Democrat office, First State Bank, Rice hotel, and the Adams county

SCHOOL BOARD MEETS FRIDAY Final Plans For New School House May Be Submitted Friday All but the last of the legal formalities have been completed In the preliminary preparations for the construction of a new school building here, it was announced today. The final approval by the state tax board on the special appropriations of funds for the construction of the building must be included in the invitation to accept bids. Approval has already been obtained on the $90,000 bond issue of the city school board and the $50,000 bond issue of the civil city. A hearing, which will probably be held next week, and be conducted here by a member of the state tax board will be a formality, it is expected, because n oobjections have been filed. Friday night the city school board will hold an important* meeting, at which time final plans probably will be submitted for approval. A. M. Strauss, of Fort Wayne, the architect employed by the school board, has his entire office force working on the plans. Measurements of old equipment in the Central building were taken Tuesday by one of Mr. Strauss’s assistants. Bevington and Williams, an Indianapolis engineering firm, probably will submit final specifications for the heating, lighting and plumbing at the Friday meeting. Friday, the wage scale will be discussed by the board. The wage scale will be included in the invitation to bid. Members of the school board are expecting that the preliminary plans will progress very rapidly after the final approval is obtained from the state tax board. Razing of the old Central building probably will be begun in a few days after the approval is obtained. All efforts are being made to begin the construction on the newbuilding January 4, the last day permitted under the government’s offer of a $110,045 PWA grant to begin work on the project. AUTO CRASHES INTO BRIDGE Three Escape With Slight Injuries In Accident Tuesday Night Three young men escaped with cuts and bruises last night shortly after 11 o’clock when the car in which they were riding crashed into the bridge, south of Monmouth. The car was driven by David S. | Myers, of north of the city. He was accompanied by James Moses ) and Royal Friend, both living in that vicinity. Enroute to a feed store fire at ) Williams, tire tracks showed that the car swerved too far to the left after rounding the curve south of I the bridge. The car struck the guard rail, I rebounded, evidently turning over ) at least once and careened over to the bridge and guard rail on the ! other sids. Friend was thrown from the car, while the driver and Moses were both carried in the hurtling auto. All of the men received cuts and bruises. The Zwick & Son ambulance was called and they were bro/ght to the office of a local physician, where first aid treatment was ad(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

memorial hospital. ' | On Christmas Eve of 1936, the r Good Fellows club presented Christi mas baskets and gifts to 57 differ- - ent families of the city, which reps resented 185 children. | Contributions last year totaled t' $397.70, and sorority members hope t for an even larger fund for the l 1937 Christmas distribution. i Any person knowing any needy, > deserving families, is requested to s , write to the Good Fellows club, and I personal investigation will be made i by members of the sorority. > | Distribution a>f the club’s gifts is • made on Christmas Eve by sorority i members, who for several years I have been assisted in the dlstribuI tion by members of the Decatur I chapter of the B. P. O. Elks. i Miss Mary Margaret Voglewede ■ I is president of the Delta Theta Tau i sorority, sponsoring organiation of • the Good Fellows club, and Miss , ' Mary Wertzberger is chairman of ■ I this year’s Good Fellows club.

LEWIS, GREEN ' MEET THURSDAY ON LABOR FIGHT! Heads Os Rival Unions To Confer Thursday ’ To Seek Agreement Washington. Dec. 1— (U.R) — | ' Prospects of a quick peace between the American federation of i , I labor and the committee for industrial organization were enhanced . today by the agreement of John L . Lewis and William Green to meet ( tomorrow and make a personal L attempt to end their two-year-old , struggle for dominance of the laI I bor movement. It will be the first formal meeting of the two labor leaders since » Lewis formed the C-. 1.0. and led it out of the federation in 1935. 1 I Upon their efforts to find com- . mon ground for truce will depend . | the immediate future of 7.300.000 . | working men and women enrolled I in the rival organizations and the > possible destiny of 30,000,000 wage /earners who are not union mem- . bers. % , The surprise decision of the meeting followed a month long deadlock between peace commitj tees of the A. F. of L. and the . IC. I. O. The sudden announce-) .' ment that federation president . Green and Lewis would try to I thrash out a solution of the labor i war together gave rise to early 5 ! settlement hopes. 5 i An A. F. of L.-C.1.0. truce would conform with President Roosevelt's I continued appeal for cooperation , ■ between warring labor factions r and also between workers and r capital. . j In his recent housing message . I Mr. Roosevelt asked labor and , capital to get together behind bis ' r program for a construction boom. . | Lewis and Green will meet with i Philip Murray and George M. Harrison who respectively headed the IC. I. O. and A. F. of L. peace y committees. The other negotiat--5 ors —nine from the C. 1.0. and two , from the A. F. of L.—are subject Ito immediate call if their advice I 1 is needed. Abandonment, at least tempor-' i arily. of the negotiating committees in favor of a “brass tacks” , conference of the opposing gener- ( als was decided after the delegaB tions had agreed to a five-point program outlining the issues in-) volved and listing them in the I order they would be considered. The conference — scheduled to meet at 10 a. m. in the hotel suite) where the joint committees have met —both sides agreed that there I i no longer can be any question of f the authority of the negotiators to 1 effect a settlement because their. -[Word is almost certain to be rati- ■) tied by the C. I O. and A. F. of L. • membership. 31 Observers believed that there | s was more chance of a permanent | 1 peace since both leaders have ’ I given their personal and official t approval of negotiations. The two t labor chieftains now bear personal t responsibility for the outcome, f It was generally believed that some willingness to compromise ' pl (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) MONTH LEFT TO i PAY INTANGIBLE ’ Only 31 Days Remaining To Pay Tax On Intangibles . 1 County Assessor Ernest Worth- | man called attention today to the fact that only 31 days are left in 1 which to purchase intangible stamps, or the instrument is , >) worthless. 1 ) The list of taxable intangibles I I include: promissory notes, mortI gage notes, chattels, sales con-' • tracts, judgments, sheriff's certifl- ’ ) cates, postal savings, foreign) ’ J stocks and bonds, and the like. • i If a holder has intangibles that i are not of face value they must be I revalued in the assessor's office. • Three blanks are to be made out, 1 signed by the holder. One of these goes to (he state • board of tax commissions for Us 1 approval, one is sent to the holder 1 and the third is placed on file in 1 the county assessor’s office and the stamps placed accordingly, ' Mr. Worthman stated. He called attention to the fact 1 that it is not. legal only to place • the stamps on. unless the instru- ’ ment is revalued. The rates are five cents on an i instrument valued up to S2O and 25 cents on the hundred thereafter. Assessor Worthman also reminded i that the penalty rate is five times t as great for each year since the statute became effective in 1933.

Japan Apologizes To U. S. Admiral For Tug Seizure

Beheads His Son ■ Xi 7 SkJl Mental unbalance was believed responsible for a maniacal crime at Sandusky, 0., where John J. MillI er, 32-year-old factory hand, deI capitated his seven-month-old son ) with a saw. Miller, who told authorities he had Aain the child because he "wanted to," was to be given sanity tests. The tragedy joccurred while Mrs. Miller was downstairs phoning for reservations to Kansas City where the couple had decided to move. HARTFOROTWr RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Sarah Zimmerman Dies Last Night After Long Illness Mrs. Sarah Zimmerman, 79, widow of David Zimmerman, died Tuesday night at 10:40 o’clock at : the home of her son, Amos Zimmerman, in Hartford township. Death was caused by dropsy. Mrs. Zimmerman had been ill since last ‘ August. The deceased was horn in Ohio, July 18, 1858. Her husband prei ceded her in death six years ago. Surviving are the following sons land daughters: Amos of Hartford ) township: Charles of Bluffton; j Mrs. Sam Wittwer of Berne; Noah 'of Portland. Albert of Hartford ! township. Simon of Geneva. Mrs. I Jesse Amstutz of Roseville. Mich.; Elmer of Flint, Mich.; brothers and sisters, Amos Amstutz, GraI bill; William Amstutz. Decatur; I Mrs. Peter Klopfenstine. Monroe . (ownship; Mrs. Peter Fox, Linn 'Grove; Mrs. Carey Templin, I Berne; Mis. Anna Diller, Pandora, | Ohio. A sister and four brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held Friday at 1 p. m. at the home and at 1:30 o'clock at the West Mis- | sionary church. Rev. C. J. Gehrig will officiate. Burial will be in the M. R. E. cemetery at Berne. o — Three New Petit Jurors Are Named William Johnson, of Kirkland (township; Jennie Edwards, of De-1 Icatur and Reuben Gerber, of French i ) township, were drawn as members | of the -petit jury for the Novem'ber term. The three new persons replace ) those drawn several days ago by )the Jury commissioners. Sarah Belle Miller of the original group was | found to be dead. Emma Gerke, of Root township, and Chalmer Brodbeck of Union township, were excused Monday by Judge Huber M. DeVoss. o— '■ TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 16 10:00 a. m. 24 Noon 32 2:00 p. m. 34 3:00 p. in. 34 WEATHER Mostly unsettled tonight and Thursday; not quite so cold north and west central portlona tonight, slightly warmer Thursday.

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Makes Formal Apology For Seizure Os Tug; Return American And Italian-Owned Tugs. PRAISE CONSUL Washington, Dec. I.—-(U.R—-Secretary of State Cordell Hull indicated today the state department is satisfied with Japan's return of a launch seized from its American owners and apology for hauling down the American flag on the boat. Shanghai, Dec. I—(UP)1 —(UP) —Japanese authorities returned the Amer-ican-owned tug. Felting, today and formally apologized. Vice Admiral Kiyoshu Hasegawa, commander in chief of the Japanese third fleet, was understood to have made the apology to Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander of the U. S. Asiatic fleet, and U. S. Consul Clarence E. Gauss. had protested to Japanese authorities yesterday when the tug, property of the William Hunt interests in the far east, was hijacked from its base at the Kin Lee-Yuan wharf in the French concession. The Japanese naval party ripped the American flag from its standard and threw it into the Whangpoo river. The Japanese also returned two Italian-owned tugs which they had appropriated along with the Felting. Hasegawa first offered to return the tugs if the United States andItalian authorities went to the Japanese base down the Whangpoo after them. Rear Admiral Yarnell refused, and the Italian officials followed his example. He demanded that the Japanese return the Feiting to 1 its berth at the Kin Lee-Yuan wharf which Hasegawa finally agreed to do. American naval and marine officials were not present when the tug was brought back but officials of the William Hunt company and a group of Americans were there. Italian naval authorities also were present. The Hunt employes had recovered the Feiting’s flag from the river and were prepared to hoist it. But the Japanese already had hoisted the American flag and Italian flags on the confiscated tugs, apparently having obtained them elsewhere. It was the first time during the entire Chinese-Japanese war, that a foreign power had obtained full Japanese recognition of any principle it felt the Japanese had violated. Return of the vessels greatly amused several hundred Chinese coolies at the wharfside or perched on sampans offshore. Without smiling, the Japanese sailors left the tugs and returned to their own vessel. A polite, mustachioed Japanese consular police officer approached Hunt and they shook hands. They conversed in Japanese but what they said was not learned. After some confusion, it developed that the consular officer wanted a receipt for the tug. Hunt reached into his pocket for a calling card and scribbled on it the equivalent of "received, one tug.” The officer obtained similar receipts from the Jtalian’ authorities. The Hunt interests issued this (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DR. FIELDS IS CLUB SPEAKER Dentist Speaks To Lions Club; Members Treated To Venison Dr. E. P. Fields, local dentiet, was the speaker last night at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Lions club at the Rice hotel. Dr. Fields, who recently returned from a hunting expedition, related the story of his trip and described several scenic points of Interest. He also told of the attraction of hunting in Michigan and the various game which cap be secured in that territory. Members of the clu'b were treated to a venison banquet. The meat was secured by the dentist on his trip north and returned here. Dr. H. Frohnapfel, local chiropractor, wae in charge of the program for the evening.